How would you manage palliation in a patient with postobstructive pneumonia caused by a mediastinal mass?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Palliation • Thoracic Malignancies • Pulmonology

Would you treat if there is active infection? How much improvement would you expect?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

I'm guessing you're thinking of a lung cancer patient with hilar obstruction, lobar atelectasis, and 2nd pneumoia. These patients often get great palliation from RT. The primary challenge is finding the obstructing mass (which benefits from RT) and separating it from the infection (doesn't benefit...

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Radiation Oncologist at UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
It may add value to remind ourselves that reviewin...

Radiation Oncologist at Mayo Clinic
Excellent point Drew.

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